In 2006, a U.K. investigation revealed that employees at Rupert Murdoch’s ‘News of the World’ tabloid had successfully hacked into the cell phones of three aides to the royal family. A few months later, Scotland Yard discovered that reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had also gained access to the cell phones and voicemails of several celebrities, government officials and professional athletes — all in the hopes of snagging a juicy headline for their gossip section. Only now, however, are all the gory details of the operation finally coming to the surface
Filed under: Windows Mobile , Microsoft It was pretty clear from the get-go that Windows Phone 7 would integrate tightly with Microsoft’s Live services, and today we’ve got another glimpse at one way that integration will work. WMPoweruser has shared an image captured from what appears to be a Samsung employee’s Windows Live account.
Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse : Microsoft has officially announced the $70 the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale now, starts shipping in December, and officially goes on sale in January. New malware detects browser, shows fake malware warning page : There’s a clever new piece of malware that goes to extreme lengths to pass itself off as genuine software
For the second week in a row, Digg topped our most-read-stories list. Also this week we launched a brand new channel – ReadWriteHack – and continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how to use the Internet of Things to hack Nike+ to do automatic Foursquare check-ins; augmented reality helped tennis fans “see through walls”; and Google Docs got real-time collaborative highlighting.
If you’re scratching your head over the new vertical orientation of iTunes 10’s close/minimize/maximize ‘traffic light’ buttons — which diverts from years of Apple design history — there’s a quick fix on the Mac (sorry, Windows users). Boot up the Terminal app (in your Applications folder), and paste in the following single line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1 and press Return. Restart iTunes and you’ll see glorious horizontal buttons again.
LG’s 31-inch 3D OLED TV might help establishing the OLED TVs in the mainstream. It’s for the first time that an OLED has gotten so much slim that now it could strongly contend against the already ultra-slim LCD TVs. The 2.9 cm thick TV with 31-inch 3D OLED display has been billed as the world’s slimmest OLED TV yet. Featuring 3D viewing glasses, full HD resolution (1920 x 1080) and “infinite contrast ratio” it’s all set to give you the ultimate, never-seen-before viewing experience
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If you need to edit some video away from your home, free web-based video editor JayCut will likely get your project going, whether you need simple cutting and pasting or text, transitions, and impromptu audio recording. More??
Share Drive-Thru is a portable disk management software for Windows . The software offers direct disk related configuration changes in an easy to use interface. The program displays different options on the startup window, and in three other tabs. In the drive security tab it is possible to hide drives from the computer, lock drives and disallow autorun for specific drive letters.
Share Recently I’ve done a number of articles covering the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which range from installation, adding entries, to full-blown GUI management tools (See LDAP content on Ghacks for more information). If you’re in the dark about LDAP is an application protocol that allows the querying and modifying of directory services data implemented on IP networks. Basically it’s a complex, large, directory of information of various forms that can be used for many, varied implementations (company addressbooks, application authentication, etc)
Filed under: Linux , Canonical , Beta Ubuntu 10.10 is due to arrive next month (10/10, of course), and if you’ve been waiting for Canonical to make the jump from alpha to beta before taking an early peek at it — today’s the day! The download page is up, torrents are seeded, and you can finally get your paws on the Maverick Meerkat beta. The new release features refined visuals from the background to the default icons. The simplified installer also now features an option to download an MP3 decoder during the setup process — giving users the ability to play back the popular audio format from the get-go.
Highlights from this morning’s big tech headlines … The new Skype 5.0 beta for Windows introduces 10-way video calling, for awkward and impromptu digital family reunions.
Filed under: Security , Social Software , Facebook If you’re constantly forgetting to log out of Facebook when you use other people’s computers or phones, Facebook’s new remote logout feature is right up your alley. Under Account Settings (specifically, the Account Security section), you can now see a list of places where you’re currently logged in, along with some info to help you determine whether each session is legitimate or unauthorized. And, of course, you also have the option to log any of those sessions out.
Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson fame may be too chicken to invest in WeedMaps (think Yelp for pot ), but that isn’t stopping other companies from sniffing around the startup, looking to score. In fact, a company called LC LUXURIES LIMITED, or rather its most recently established subsidiary, US Cannabis, is very close to buying WeedMaps. According to this press release , the Nevada corporation has entered into formal negotiations with the startup to acquire the domain name “weedmaps.com” as well as the current operating website.
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